{"id":387,"date":"2017-10-29T02:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T07:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2017-10-29T02:17:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T07:17:08","slug":"creating-change-or-managing-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/creating-change-or-managing-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"“Creating Change” or Managing Oppression?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published February 11, 2016<\/p>\n

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Protest erupts at “Creating Change” conference over participation of pro-Israel “A Wider Bridge”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Anger over the participation in a progressive conference of a pro-Israel group, which frequently works hand-in-glove with Israel’s racist government, boiled over into protest January 22, 2016.<\/p>\n

Activists were incensed that the National LGBTQ Task Force, a group claims to be anti-racist, would allow a group dedicated to the promotion of Israel to soft-peddle it’s subjugation of the Palestinian people at the Task Force’s annual “Creating Change” conference in Chicago.<\/span><\/p>\n

The protest capped weeks of growing anger at the Task Force which earlier invited the notorious ICE anti-immigrant police agency to participate in the conference, right in the midst of a new wave of sweeps that are adding further to President Obama’s record number of deportations. After a wave of protest, the Task Force backed down and disinvited ICE, but rescinded its dis-invitation of the pro-Israel group, prompting the protest you see here.<\/p>\n

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Besides the protests of Arabs, Muslims and Latinos, the Task Force’s moves prompted a who’s who of local young Black Lives Matters organizations to publicly denounce the Task Force and\/or boycott the conference.<\/p>\n

View the movie here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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